OpEd: Building a more equitable Port Covington

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Op-ed: How to build a more equitable Port Covington

"We will build it together"' is the Port Covington claim. Indeed, with proposals for massive city, state and federal public subsidy of nearly $2 billion over the next 50 years we are all investors with a stake in the proposed development. Because more than three-quarters of the money budgeted for the development's infrastructure phase comes from all of us as taxpayers, we should have a historic opportunity to build it together - and to get it right.

It's time for the Baltimore City Council to ensure that the massive, publicly financed Port Covington project is re-aligned with a new paradigm to realize equitable growth for all the residents of the city investing in it and sharing it's risks over the next five decades.